Good news, Everyone!

Apr01

Posted by cstrep · Tags: Opera, browsers, devblog, standards ...

We're ready to announce one of the biggest changes to our community since its launch in 2001. We are really committed to our work, and there's nothing greater to see new members joining or existing ones logging in!

But... There's a catch to it all. As most of you know, developing Web sites today is time-consuming, and in order to maintain My Opera we're forced to think of all different kinds of contexts when we create something new (or fix something old). So, Nicolas, Edoardo, Esteban, and I (together with front-end guys Fred and the new kid in town, Tristan) have decided that it only makes sense to continue development exclusively for Microsoft IE6 (according to our stats, the majority of our users are IE-followers).

Yeah, yeah, we know... We are the Opera community, but, boo-hoo-on-you!

There's simply too much work to support all those browsers along with their interpretation of "standards".

We can safely announce that starting today, a new era will arise.

If you think this is good, then help us digg it!

MyOpera scheduled downtime for upgradeStress testing tools for MyOpera

Comments

By theoddbod, # 1. April 2008, 06:54:30

By ALLY_G, # 1. April 2008, 07:01:42

By NoobSaibot, # 1. April 2008, 07:06:07

And I assume, that this includes the rendering of these cute little animals, aye?

By Schalandra, # 1. April 2008, 07:16:52

Oh, That's great! I think I'll dump OS X and install Vista right away. I have got a @vista.aero e-mail address with username roobie, anyway!

By eztigma, # 1. April 2008, 07:31:43

Great news! I've been looking to upgrade to Windows 98 for a while now, you guys have just made it an easy decision for me.

Now, when are you going to start work on supporting HTML 3.0? I hear there's some cool new stuff for scrolling marquees in there...

By johnnysaucepn, # 1. April 2008, 07:38:49

rotfl, happy 1. April!

By henriq68, # 1. April 2008, 07:38:59

I love my new avatar.

By YtseJam, # 1. April 2008, 07:43:27

By KYren, # 1. April 2008, 07:46:11

By babox, # 1. April 2008, 07:51:03

By darkrabbit, # 1. April 2008, 08:07:43

Not IE

good one Opera

By baby_2u, # 1. April 2008, 08:49:37

Nice

By karaj, # 1. April 2008, 09:03:28

Ha ha, it must be a joke!

By sandalian, # 1. April 2008, 09:05:33

<-- I'm not a stupid cow! Bring back my avatar!

By sandalian, # 1. April 2008, 09:09:07

You nearly had me until the "...but, boo-hoo-on-you!" part

- ØØ -

By NoteMe, # 1. April 2008, 09:15:44

Cool!!

By mikedallos, # 1. April 2008, 09:27:31

Sandalion, you look more like an anteater to me dude.

By Furie, # 1. April 2008, 09:27:54

Excellent news!

Now you can put <marquee> tags everywhere!

Also, you should really consider making the whole layout with tables... DIVs are soooo web 2.0!

And! You could use advanced CSS selectors like :first that only those standards-compliant browsers understand and IE completely ignores and put code inside them that will completely break the layout in other browsers, but will have no effect on IE!

Also Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl are only for those Open-source geeks, real world developers use ASP.NET with IIS and Microsoft SQL on Windows Server!

Oh and check if the user agent of the browser is Opera and force the fools that use it to upgrade to Internet Explorer!

By d4n3, # 1. April 2008, 09:32:24

By marcinec, # 1. April 2008, 09:49:30

Ha ha ha... good one to start April 1st..

Do you want us to believe this?

By Senthilraj, # 1. April 2008, 09:56:13

About time, I'm so tired of browsing with Opera now, I miss my daily crashes and spyware popups.

By Helmers, # 1. April 2008, 09:57:30

By tCfkaDA, # 1. April 2008, 10:15:38

LOL

By Stomyr, # 1. April 2008, 10:25:36

<-----The animal of 1 april is the fish... not this!

I hope myopera will be soon only W3C full standard.

Ciao, Igor

P.S.: What about my disappeared 365 album?

By igorditerni, # 1. April 2008, 10:29:24

i love opera...but i hate my avatar...why its elephant ....its not sexy....

By Rea's Community, # 1. April 2008, 10:46:21

elephant is for the men...and the color too ...

By Rea's Community, # 1. April 2008, 10:46:57

sandalian it's a rhino, not a cow

By p01, # 1. April 2008, 10:51:18

it looks like a cow...

By Rea's Community, # 1. April 2008, 10:55:02

Elephant for the men??? Don't you know that elephants have a matriarchical society?

By JavaWoman, # 1. April 2008, 11:16:05

but look ! it looks like not a woman.... it has a big tummy

By Rea's Community, # 1. April 2008, 11:17:35

New way to fool all the members

By Sreeramu, # 1. April 2008, 11:18:05

All are jokes...

By Sreeramu, # 1. April 2008, 11:18:33

;;;;;

By Rea's Community, # 1. April 2008, 11:20:29

Please I need my identity back... I feel horrendous

By dejalo que va lejos, # 1. April 2008, 11:24:18

me too ....me you can see that its an elephant,but you you look like a LIZARD

By Rea's Community, # 1. April 2008, 11:26:17

What animal am I ?

By annaraj, # 1. April 2008, 11:26:36

z-e-b-r-a

By annaraj, # 1. April 2008, 11:27:54

You are gorgeous

By zetorres, # 1. April 2008, 11:27:57

zebra...? hmmm you look like a bee! a pale bee....

By Rea's Community, # 1. April 2008, 11:29:39

I want my cool avatar back.

This flamingo looks like it tooke some hits of exctasy.

Just kidding!

Good trick.

By Zé Vasconcelos, # 1. April 2008, 11:39:26

Rea, a pale bee with ears?

By Dacotah, # 1. April 2008, 11:43:39

Posted by · Tags: Opera, browsers, devblog, standards ...
Who posted it, Tags?

By Dacotah, # 1. April 2008, 11:44:49

I like my new avatar...thanks Opera for that

yupiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

By zetorres, # 1. April 2008, 11:45:44

lol - nice idea. in particular the avatars

By thobi, # 1. April 2008, 11:46:38

By soumitram4u, # 1. April 2008, 11:50:00

dacotah,

some animals are hard to know who or what they are ....

By Rea's Community, # 1. April 2008, 11:59:55

Hilarious, but please don't scare us like that again.

By incarnadine, # 1. April 2008, 12:01:54

Rea, that is for sure, it's hard to tell, I can't tell what this one is for ellinidata:
http://my.opera.com/ellinidata/blog/lazy-and-shameful#comments

By Dacotah, # 1. April 2008, 12:16:28

ellinidata is a leopard (or possibly a cheetah?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah

By johnnysaucepn, # 1. April 2008, 12:35:43

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